Fulton County Women's Journal

They published my story! God told me to write my story down and they published it! So excited to see him follow through with the details!

My chains are gone

I had my last check up with the plastic surgeon last week and then my last physical therapy session on Friday. It was crazy to hug the nurses and doctors knowing they had helped me so much and we were done with this journey. As I got in my car to leave Turning Point (my physical therapy) this song and exact verse was playing. 

My chains are gone

I've been set free

My God, my Savior has ransomed me

And like a flood His mercy reigns

Unending love, amazing grace

It was God telling me that this is over! Not only am I free from eternal death, but he has healed me. The chains of fear are gone! Time to move on and help others. 

Last Monday night a group of my friends,  my mom, and I all drove down to Passion City Church for the Grove. It was amazing worship for women all over Atlanta. Regina spoke that night of how God has guided her through her whole life and now her cancer has come back and spread throughout her body. (Regina was the very first 'survivor' that called me the night I found out that I had cancer. She was a mentor to Ashley Jansen.) She is currently living a life of gratitude and still praising God in this season of the unknown in her life. That night after hearing her speak, I had a dream that people kept trying to break in our home. I couldn't keep them out and kept having fear. The Holy Spirit explained to me that I no longer need to live in fear. I just need to thank him and trust him in today and not worry about tomorrow. 

 

My chains are gone

I've been set free

My God, my Savior has ransomed me

And like a flood His mercy reigns

Unending love, amazing grace

Bone scan

My oncologist suggested that I get a bone scan and routine ct scan since I had been having bone pain for a while now. I am just achy all the time. I was getting pretty nervous, but really trying to trust God. 

After the nurse injected me with the dye for the scan, I felt so nauseous and then almost blacked out. I think it was cause I was so hungry. I couldn't eat anything that morning and had been up early getting Roman to school. Anyways, I survived and then anxiously waited for the results. 

A friend sent me a sermon from Passion Church that talked about being in a storm. Louie Giglio talked about getting on our knees and praying God's will be done, not ours. It was powerful. I went on a walk the next morning and finally got to that point where I said, "God, your will be done. If it's your will for this cancer to come back and spread and me not raise my babies, then your will be done." It's a pretty tough place to be. 

We got the results the next day. No cancer! Praise The Lord! I am so grateful. I'm ready to live my life now without fear. It's time to move on and get normal. A new normal. 

Lunch

We surprised a roman and ate lunch with him the other day at school. It was so great of my mom to watch Hudson so we could spend a little one on one with our big boy!

Fall break in Tulsa

We decided to fly to Tulsa for Roman's fall break. We flew out on Wednesday afternoon and came back Saturday. It was so fun to spend time with Pa and Grandma and the triplets. 

Our first flight in a long time went pretty good. Carmen had diaharia in her pants of during the flight. That was fun to clean up in the tiny plane bathroom! I found out later that Matt had fed her tons of raisins and grapes earlier that morning. Seriously!?

Just a crazy dinner at Pa and grandma's!

We took at cousin trip to the zoo on Friday. The weather was perfect and the kids had a blast!

They loved checking out the rhinos

We all enjoyed the train ride too!

Roman was so excited about his baseball trophy that he had to bring it in his suitcase and get a photo of it with the triplets. So cute!

We all made a visit to see grandma Jones. 

First ER trip

I was so proud of my little girl. She was starting to cut the pieces of apple into smaller pieces for Hudson. But if you look closely, you'll notice her butter knife was upside down. About 30 seconds later, the knife slipped in between her fingers and cut deep. There was blood everywhere! Matt immediately threw her in the car end went to the ER. She ended up only having to have it glued together. No stitches! I felt so terrible! Poor girl!

Fair

We enjoyed another year of the Cumming fair. The kids loved riding the rides. Hudson actually stayed in the stroller the entire time. We ended it with corn dogs and a funnel cake of course. Until next year!